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TRIGA II Pitesti - Pulsed

TRIGA II Pitesti - Pulsed, a research reactor (tRIGA) in Pitesti, Romania, with 500 kW of thermal power, operated by Technologies for Nuclear Energy State Owned Company (RATEN). Operating, first critical in 1980.

By thermal power it ranks second among the 2 research reactors operating in Romania. It went critical 23 years after the first research reactor in Romania, VVR-S Bucharest (1957). It is one of 36 TRIGA reactors operating worldwide, spread across 17 countries. It is one of 65 research reactors in 20 countries that General Atomics designed or built.

Country

Romania

City

Pitesti

Type

TRIGA

Thermal power

500 kW

Operator

Technologies for Nuclear Energy State Owned Company (RATEN)

Design and construction

Designed by General Atomics

Status

Operating

First criticality

1980

Purpose

Neutron radiography, training, activation analysis, geochronology, materials testing

See also: every research reactor in Romania · How research reactors work · every reactor by General Atomics